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# Skandapurana 3.2.21

Skandapurāṇa 3.2.21

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.2.21.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.1)

.. vyāsa uvāca .. ..

> Vyāsa said:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.2)

tayā cotpāditā rājañcharīrā tkuladevatāḥ.. 1 ..

> And by her, O king, were produced from her body the family deities:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.3)

bhaṭṭārikī 1tathā chatrā 2 ovikā 3 jñānajā tathā 4 .. 1 ..

> Bhaṭṭārikā (1), likewise Chatrā (2), Ovikā (3), and Jñānajā (4);  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.4)

bhadrakālī ca 5 māheśī 6 siṃhorī 7 dhanamarddanī 8  
gātrā 9 śāṃtā 10 śeṣadevī 11 vārāhī 12 bhadrayoginī 13 .. 2 ..

> Bhadrakālī (5), Māheśī (6), Siṃhorī (7), Dhanamardanī (8), / Gātrā (9), Śāntā (10), Śeṣadevī (11), Vārāhī (12), Bhadrayoginī (13);  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.5)

yogeśvarī 14 mohalajjā 15 kuleśī 16 śakulācitā 17  
tāraṇī 18 vana kānaṃdā 19 cāmuṃḍā 20 ca sureśvarī 21 .. 3 ..

> Yogeśvarī (14), Mohalajjā (15), Kuleśī (16), Śakulācitā (17), / Tāraṇī (18), Vanakānandā (19), Cāmuṇḍā (20), and Sureśvarī (21);  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.6)

dārabhaṭṭāriketyā 22 dyā pratyekā śatadhā punaḥ ..

> Dārabhaṭṭārikā (22), and so on; each of them again a hundredfold.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.7)

utpannāḥ śaktayastasminnānārūpānvitāḥ śubhāḥ ..

> Auspicious śaktis endowed with various forms arose therein.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.8)

ataḥ paraṃ pravakṣyāmi pravaraṇyatha devatāḥ .. 4 ..

> Henceforth I shall describe the deities according to their pravaras:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.9)

aupamanyavasagotrapravara3 gotradevyāgātrāvasiṣṭha 1 bharadvāja 2 iṃdrapramadaka vyāsaṃgo? traśagotradevyājñānajā 2 pravara 3 kāśyapaḥ avatsāraḥ 2 raibhyaḥ 3 māṃḍavyasagotra 3 gotrajā dārabhadārikā 3 pravara 5 bhārgavacyava nā adhiavī jamadagniḥ 5 kuśikasagotra'jātāraṇī 6 mahābalāpravara 3 viśvāmitradevarājauddālaka 6 śaunakasagotra 7 gotradevī 7 śāṃtā pravara 3 bhārgavāṇainahotragārtsamada 3 kṛṣṇātreyasagotravīgotradevyābhadrayoginī 8 pravara 3 ātreyaarcanānasaśyāvāśva 3 gārgyāyaṇasagotra gotrajā śāṃtā pravara 5 bhārgavacyavanaāpnavānavījamadagniḥ 10 gārgāyaṇagotragotrajājñānajā pravara 5 kāśyapaavatsāraśāṃḍilaasitadevalagāṃgeyasa gotradevā śāṃtā dvāravāsinī pravara 3 gārgyagārgi śaṃkha likhita 12 paiṃgyasagotrajājñānajā śeṣalaudha pravara āṃgirasaāṃbarīṣayauvanāśva 13 vatsasagotraṃ gotrajājñānajāpravara 5 bhārgavacyāvanaāpnavāna aurvapurodhasaḥ 14 vātsasagotragotrajājñānajāpravara 5 bhārgavacyāvana āpnavān aurvapurodhasaḥ 15 vātsyasagotrasya gotrajā śīharīpravara 5 bhārgavacyāvana āpnuvān aurvapurodhasaḥ 16 śyāmāyanasagotrasya gotrajā śīharī pravara bhārgavacyāvanaāpnuvān avi jamadagniḥ 17 dhāraṇasagotrasya gotrajā chatrajā pravara 3 agastyadārvacyutadadhya vāhana 18 kāśyapagotrasya gotrajā cāmuṇḍā pravara 3 kāśyapasyāvatsāra naidhruva 19 bharadvājagotrasya gotrajā pakṣiṇī pravara 3  
āṃgirasabārhaspatyabhāradvāja 22 māṃḍavyasagotrasya vatsasavātsyasavātsyāyanasa 4 sāmānyalaugākṣasagotrasya gotrajā bhadrayoginī pravara 3 kāśyapavasiṣṭha avatsāra 20 kauśikasagotrasya gotrajā pakṣiṇī pravara 3 viśvāmitra atharva bhāradvāja 21 sāmānyapravara 1 paimagyasabharadvāja 2 samānapravarā 2 laugākṣasagārgyāyanasakāśyapakaśyapa 4 samānapravara 3 kauśikakuśikasāḥ 2 samānapravaraḥ 4 aupamanyulogākṣasa 2 samānapravarāḥ 5 ..

> Of the Aupamanyava gotra and pravara, the gotra-deity is Gātrā; \[their pravaras are\] Vasiṣṭha, Bharadvāja, and Indrapramada. Of the Vyāsa gotra, the gotra-deity is Jñānajā, with three pravaras: Kāśyapa, Avatsāra, and Raibhya. Of the Māṇḍavya sagotra, the gotrajā is Dārabhaṭṭārikā, with five pravaras: Bhārgava, Cyavana, Āpnavāna, Aurva, and Jamadagni. Of the Kuśika sagotra, the gotrajā is Tāraṇī of great strength, with three pravaras: Viśvāmitra, Devarāja, and Uddālaka. Of the Śaunaka sagotra, the gotra-deity is Śāntā, with three pravaras: Bhārgava, Vaitahavya, and Gārtsamada. Of the Kṛṣṇātreya sagotra, the gotra-deity is Bhadrayoginī, with three pravaras: Ātreya, Arcanānasa, and Śyāvāśva. Of the Gārgyāyaṇa sagotra, the gotrajā is Śāntā, with five pravaras: Bhārgava, Cyavana, Āpnavāna, Aurva, and Jamadagni. Of the Gārgāyaṇa gotra, the gotrajā is Jñānajā, with five pravaras: Kāśyapa, Avatsāra, Śāṇḍilya, Asita, and Devala. Of the Gāṅgeya sagotra, the deity is Śāntā Dvāravāsinī, with three pravaras: Gārgya, Gārgi, and Śaṅkhalikhita. Of the Paiṅgya sagotra, the gotrajā is Jñānajā Śeṣalaudhā, with the pravara: Āṅgirasa, Āmbarīṣa, and Yauvanāśva. Of the Vatsa sagotra, the gotrajā is Jñānajā, with five pravaras: Bhārgava, Cyavana, Āpnavāna, Aurva, and Jamadagni. Of the Vātsa sagotra, the gotrajā is Jñānajā, with five pravaras: Bhārgava, Cyavana, Āpnavāna, Aurva, and Jamadagni. Of the Vātsya sagotra, the gotrajā is Śīharī, with five pravaras: Bhārgava, Cyavana, Āpnavāna, Aurva, and Jamadagni. Of the Śyāmāyana sagotra, the gotrajā is Śīharī, with the pravara: Bhārgava, Cyavana, Āpnavāna, Aurva, and Jamadagni. Of the Dhāraṇa sagotra, the gotrajā is Chatrajā, with three pravaras: Agastya, Dārvacyuta, and Dadhyavāhana. Of the Kāśyapa gotra, the gotrajā is Cāmuṇḍā, with three pravaras: Kāśyapa, Avatsāra, and Naidhruva. Of the Bharadvāja gotra, the gotrajā is Pakṣiṇī, with three pravaras: Āṅgirasa, Bārhaspatya, and Bhāradvāja. Of the Māṇḍavya sagotra, Vatsa, Vātsya, and Vātsyāyana, the four share common \[ancestry\]. Of the Laugākṣa sagotra, the gotrajā is Bhadrayoginī, with three pravaras: Kāśyapa, Vasiṣṭha, and Avatsāra. Of the Kauśika sagotra, the gotrajā is Pakṣiṇī, with three pravaras: Viśvāmitra, Atharva, and Bhāradvāja. The common pravara is one: Paiṅgya and Bharadvāja share the same pravaras. Laugākṣa, Gārgyāyaṇa, and the Kāśyapas—these four share common pravaras. Kauśika and Kuśika—these two share a common pravara. Aupamanyava and Laugākṣa—these two share common pravaras.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.10)

yāvatāṃ pravareṣveko viśvāmitro'nuvartate ..

> For as many as in whose pravaras Viśvāmitra alone recurs,  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.11)

na tāvatāṃ sagotratvādvivāhaḥ syātparasparam .. .. 5 ..

> Because of having the same gotra, marriage must not take place among so many with one another. (5)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.12)

tyajetsamānapravarāṃ sagotrāṃ mātuḥ sapiṃḍāmacikitsyarogām ..

> One should avoid \[a woman\] having the same pravara, one of the same gotra, a maternal sapiṇḍa, one with an incurable disease, (6ab)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.13)

ajātalomnīṃ ca tathānyapūrvāṃ sutena hīnasya sutāṃ sukṛṣṇām .. .. 6 ..

> and likewise one without body hair, one previously betrothed to another, the daughter of a sonless man, and one who is extremely dark. (6cd)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.14)

eka eva ṛṣiryatra pravareṣvanuvartate ..

> Where even a single ṛṣi recurs in the pravaras, (7ab)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.15)

tāvatsamānagotratvamṛte bhṛgvaṃgirogaṇāt .. 7 ..

> there is identity of gotra, except in the group of Bhṛgus and Aṅgirases. (7cd)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.16)

paṃcasu triṣu sāmānyādavivāhastriṣu dvayoḥ ..

> Among five \[ancestral seers\], non-marriage applies when three are common; among three, when two are common. (8ab)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.17)

bhṛgvagirogaṇeṣvevaṃ śeṣeṣvekopi vārayet .. 8 ..

> This is so in the groups of the Bhṛgus and Aṅgirases; in the rest, even a single \[common ancestor\] prohibits \[marriage\]. (8cd)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.18)

samānagotrapravarāṃ kanyāmūḍhvopagamya ca ..

> If one marries a maiden of the same gotra and pravara and approaches her, (9ab)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.19)

tasyāmutpādya cāṃḍālaṃ brāhmaṇyādeva hīyate .. 9 ..

> and fathers a cāṇḍāla on her, he falls from his very status as a brahmin. (9cd)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.20)

kātyāyanaḥ ..

> Kātyāyana says: (10a)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.21)

pariṇīya sagotrā tu samānapravarāṃ tathā ..

> Having married \[a maiden\] of the same gotra, and likewise of the same pravara, (11a)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.22)

tyāgaṃ kṛtvā dvijastasyāstataścāṃdrāyaṇaṃ caret .. 10 ..

> the twice-born man, after abandoning her, should perform the cāndrāyaṇa penance. (10b/12)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.23)

utsṛjya tāṃ tato bhāryāṃ mātṛvatparipālayet .. 11 ..

> Having forsaken that wife, he should thereafter protect her like a mother. (11cd)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.24)

yājñavalkyaḥ ..

> Yājñavalkya says: (14a)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.25)

arogiṇīṃ bhrātṛmatīmasamānārṣagotrajām ..

> \[One should marry a woman\] free from disease, who has brothers, not born of the same ṛṣi or gotra, (15ab)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.26)

paṃcamātsaptamārdūrdhvaṃ mātṛtaḥ pitṛta stathā .. 12 ..

> beyond the fifth \[degree\] on the mother's side and the seventh on the father's side. (12/16)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.27)

asamānapravarairvivāha iti gautamaḥ ..

> “Marriage is with those not having the same pravara,” so says Gautama. (17a)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.28)

yadyekaṃ pravaraṃ bhinnaṃ mātṛgotravarasya ca ..

> Even if one pravara is different for the groom \[relative to\] the mother's gotra, (18ab)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.29)

tatrodvāho na kartavyaḥ sā kanyā bhaginī bhavet .. 13 ..

> marriage must not be performed there; that maiden is considered a sister. (13/19)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.30)

dārāgnihotrasaṃyogaṃ kurute yo'graje sthite ..

> He who takes a wife or establishes the agnihotra while his elder brother remains \[unmarried or without fire\], (20ab)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.31)

parivettā sa vijñeyaḥ parivittistu pūrvajaḥ .. 14 ..

> he is to be known as a parivettā, and the elder brother as a parivitti. (14/21)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.32)

sadā paunarbhavā kanyā varja nīyā kulādhamā ..

> A woman who is a punarbhū must always be avoided, being the degradation of a family: (22ab)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.33)

vācā dattā manodattā kṛtakautukamaṃgalā .. 15 ..

> one given by word, one given by mind, one for whom the auspicious marriage-thread ceremony was performed, (15/23)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.34)

udakasparśitā yāca yāca pāṇigṛhītakā ..

> one who has been touched with water, one whose hand has been grasped \[in marriage\], (24ab)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.35)

agniṃ parigatā yā ca punarbhūḥ prasavā ca yā .. 16 ..

> one who has circumambulated the fire, a remarried woman, and one who has given birth. (16/25)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.36)

ityetāḥ kāśyapenoktā dahaṃti kulamagnivat .. 17 ..

> These, declared by Kāśyapa, burn the family like fire. (17/26)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.37)

athāvaṭaṃkāḥ kathyaṃte gotra 1 pātra 2 dātra 3 trāśayatra 4 laḍakātra 15 maṃḍakīyātra 16 viḍalātra 17 rahilā 18 bhādila 19 vālūā 20 pokīyā 21 vākīyā 22 makālyā 23 lāḍaā 24 māṇavedā 25 kālīyā 26 tālī 27 velīyā 28 pāṃvalanḍīyā 29 mūḍā 30 pītūlā 31 dhigamagha 32 bhūtapādavādī 34 hophoyā 35 śevārdata 36 vapāra 37 vathāra 38 sādhakā 39 bahudhiyā 40 .. 18 ..

> Now the family surnames are declared: Gotrapātra (1), Dātra (2), Trāśayatra (3), Laḍakātra (15), Maṇḍakīyātra (16), Viḍalātra (17), Rahilā (18), Bhādila (19), Vālūā (20), Pokīyā (21), Vākīyā (22), Makālyā (23), Lāḍaā (24), Māṇavedā (25), Kālīyā (26), Tālī (27), Velīyā (28), Pāṃvalaṇḍīyā (29), Mūḍā (30), Pītūlā (31), Dhigamagha (32), Bhūtapādavādī (34), Hophoyā (35), Śevārdata (36), Vapāra (37), Vathāra (38), Sādhakā (39), Bahudhiyā (40). (18/27)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.38)

mātulasya sutāmūḍhvā mātṛgotrāṃ tathaiva ca ..

> Having married the daughter of a maternal uncle, and likewise one of the mother's gotra, (28ab)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.39)

samānapravarāṃ caiva tyaktvā cāṃdrāyaṇaṃ caret .. 19 ..

> or one of the same pravara, he should abandon her and perform the cāndrāyaṇa penance. (19/29)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [3.2.21.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.skanda.3.2.21.40)

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ tṛtīye brahmakhaṇḍe pūrvabhāge dharmāraṇya māhātmye śrīmātākathita nāmagotrapravarakṛtadevyavaṭaṃkakathananāmaikaviṃśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 21 .. .. cha ..

> Thus ends the twenty-first chapter, named “The Declaration of the Surnames of the Goddesses, Gotras, and Pravaras as Spoken by the Holy Mother,” in the Dharmāraṇyamāhātmya in the first part of the third Brahmakhaṇḍa of the glorious Skandapurāṇa, an extensive collection of eighty-one thousand verses.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

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